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Title: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons [Classic Tales Edition]

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Burglary turns to murder, and Sherlock Holmes is called in to examine the mysterious demolition of Napoleonic busts.

Members Reviews:

A good, short read for Sherlock fans

One of Doyle's short stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon, I grabbed it because there are more than a few references from this story (and others) in the latest season of the BBC series Sherlock. It was a very enjoyable read and there are quite a few names and references that made it into the television episode (The Six Thatchers). It is less of a whodunit and more of a whytheydidit which is a nice twist. It doesn't provide a plot with clues that you the reader could solve it with but is interesting because of the inner workings of Sherlock's sleuthing and how HE figured it out. A short read and worth your time.

Excellent Plot!

In this story, Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudsonâs shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctorâs house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case, the bust was taken outside before being broken.

Holmes knows that Lestradeâs theory about a Napoleon-hating lunatic must be wrong. The busts in question all came from the same mould. Why is he breaking them?

The next day, Lestrade calls Holmes to a house where there has been yet another bust-shattering, but there has also been a murder. Mr. Horace Harker found the dead man on his doorstep after investigating a noise. His Napoleon bust was also taken by a burglar entering through a window. It, too, was from the same mould. Also, a photograph of a rather apish-looking man is found in the dead manâs pocket.

The fragments of Harker's bust are in the front garden of an empty house up the street. Obviously the burglar wanted to see what he was doing, for there is a streetlamp here, whereas the bust could have been broken at another empty house nearer Harkerâs, but it had been dark there.

Holmes tells Lestrade to tell Harker, a journalist for the Central Press Syndicate, that he is convinced that the culprit is a lunatic. Holmes knows that this is not true, but it is expedient to use the press to convince the culprit that this is what the investigators believe.

Holmes interviews the two shopkeepers who sold the busts and finds out whom they were sold to, and where they were made, Gelder & Co. A couple of his informants also recognize the apish man in the picture. They know him as Beppo, an Italian immigrant. He even worked in the shop where the first bust was broken, having left his job there only two days earlier.

Holmes goes to Gelder & Co. and finds out that the busts were part of a batch of six, but other than that, the manager can think of no reason why they should be special, or why anyone would want to destroy them. He recognizes Beppoâs picture, and describes him as a rascal. He was imprisoned for a street-fight stabbing a year earlier, but has likely been released now. He once worked at Gelder & Co., but has not been back. His cousin still works there. Holmes begs the manager not to talk to the cousin about Beppo.

That evening, Lestrade brings news that the dead man has been identified as Pietro Venucci, a Mafioso. Lestrade believes that Venucci was sent to kill Beppo, but wound up dead himself.

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Title: Oroonoko

Author: Aphra Behn

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, is madly in love with Imoinda, the daughter of the king's general. When the king - who is also in love with Imoinda - catches wind of their affair, he sells Imoinda as a slave. This betrayal sets off a chain of events that carries unforeseen consequences for everybody involved.

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko has been hailed as one of the first great English novels and remains a classic of historical fiction.

Members Reviews:

All the extra contextual information is extremely helpful. I ...

All the extra contextual information is extremely helpful. I am writing an adaptation and the additional material is a life-saver.

this is a good option.

It's interesting and has some weird plot turns, but I've had to read it for college lit classes too many times! This edition has some really interesting & helpful resources, though, so if you have to get a copy of this story, this is a good option.

It is really short but it is an easy read. I would recommend this book to be ...

This book was okay, I had to read it for college. It is really short but it is an easy read. I would recommend this book to be read because it does help understand the life of others.

Interesting read

An interesting read. I purchased this for a class I was taking. It seems to be full of exaggeration, taking full advantage of controlling the story, and is fairly predictable.

Five Stars

would buy again

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Title: Utilitarianism

Author: John Stuart Mill

Narrator: Alastair Cameron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-16

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Utilitarianism is a book released in 1863 by John Stuart Mill to provide the support for the value of utilitarianism as a moral theory and to respond to misconceptions about it.

The book consists of five chapters; the introduction to the essay, the definition of utilitarianism and its common criticisms, the rewards it can offer the methods of proving its validity and in the final chapter looks at the connection between justice and utility and argues that happiness is the foundation of justice.

Mill delves into how the incentives provided by others and the inner feelings of sympathy and conscience encourage people to think about how their actions affect the happiness of others arguing that humans are social animals who naturally desire to be in unity with their fellow creatures. That happiness is the only thing that humans find valuable without any external validation.

In the essay he also responds to a number of criticisms of utilitarianism such as; it is a doctrine worthy only of swine, it's too demanding, it fails to recognize that happiness is unobtainable, makes people cold and unsympathetic, it is a godless ethics and fails to recognize that in making ethical decisions there usually isn't time to calculate future consequences.

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Title: Kidnapped

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: David McCallion

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-16

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped tells the story of a young orphaned 17-year old boy named David living in Scotland during the 18th century. While trying to make his way in the world, David moves in to his uncle's estate, where he soon after finds clues that prove that his father, and thus himself, should have been the rightful heir to the estate, rather than his uncle.

Aware of this discovery, David's uncle tricks him into boarding a ship, where he is then hit over the head and wakes up to find himself at the mercy of an ill-tempered crew which plans on selling him to into servitude somewhere in the Carolinas, far from his uncle.

Once at sea, the crew encounters a mighty storm, which causes the ship to smash into a smaller boat. The crash kills everyone aboard the smaller vessel except for the Jacobite, Alan. Alan boards the ship and offers money to the captain in exchange to be taken to the mainland. Once on board, David overhears the crew plotting to kill Alan in order to take all of his money.

Bonding together, David and Alan barricade themselves inside a room and end up killing several crew members. Left with no other choice, the captain gives in and agrees to deliver both Alan and David safely ashore, where David must then confront his uncle about the estate's ownership. The story depicts the development of a young boy into a fine young man through the misadventures he has, in the real world.

Members Reviews:

Kidnapped

What made the experience of listening to Kidnapped the most enjoyable?

David McCallion did an outstanding job in portraying the charters with a Scottish dialect that brought the them alive. A great author, story and narrator.

Which scene was your favorite?

The roundhouse defense was incredible

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The ship wreck and living on the Island

This recording begins by spoiling the story!

Any additional comments?

I've just started listening and I see no reason to continue. The first thing you hear is a summary of almost the entire plot! I checked my own hard copy of the book, and looked online but I didn't find the spoiler-laden preface in any other edition. In fact it's a reading if the publisher's summary that appears on this site. If this was in print any reader would have then sense to turn the page without reading. I am much less likely to skip ahead with an audio recording.

It has been years since I read this book and I had forgotten most of it. I was looking forward to embarking on that adventure again with no idea how it would unfold but I'm not sure I'll bother now.

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Title: The Chronicles of Clovis

Author: Saki

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-16

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911, was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is, like Saki's earlier hero, Reginald, vain, sarcastic, and self-regarding and another vehicle for Saki's delicious, biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society in some of the funniest exquisite literary miniatures.

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870, where his father was a senior official in the Burma police. From the age of two, he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he travelled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England, where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.

At the start of the First World War, he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France, where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being, "Put that bloody cigarette out."

Members Reviews:

The humorous side of Downton Abbey:

Just for the record, The Chronicles of Clovis has nothing whatever to do with the legendary French king. It is a collection of 30 extremely wry and witty short stories written by the inimitable Saki (the pen name for H.H. Munro). The setting is in the midst of upper class English society during the Edwardian Period, the period between the Boer War and World War when the British Empire reached it's peak. Devotees of Downton Abbey will find themselves on familiar ground, save for the slightly disconcerting presence of Clovis. Clovis Sangrail, the nominal central character about whom these stories revolve, is a typical Saki hero: young, vain, effete, worldly, slightly cruel, a bit decadent and extremely witty.

Included in this collection are some of Saki's very best works, including "Mrs. Packleetide's Tiger", "The Background", "The Jesting of Arlington Stingham", "Tobermory", "Sredni Vastar", "The talking-Out of Tarrington", "Filboid Studge" and "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope".

Both Saki, and the world about which he wrote so well, came to an end during with World War I. Nevertheless, few writers have ever been able to achieve Saki's level of irony, satire, wit and sophistication. It was a terrible loss, both to Britain and the reading public everywhere, when Saki was killed on the Western Front in 1916.

Proofreader's Nightmare

I love Saki. These are some of the best, most biting, hilarious gems ever written in the English language. However, the Kindle edition is so hard to read, that I must subtract two stars for the formatting.

The Kindle edition is very hard to read because of the awkward line breaks and kerning. I believe the digitization of this book to have been untouched by human hands, with no proofreading at all. Some lines have four words evenly spaced out to each margin. In other instances, a hyphenated word will have an additional hyphen inserted midway to make a line break. Other pages have "widows or orphans", a solitary word on one page.

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Title: The Best of Saki - Volume 1

Author: Saki

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-16

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful exquisite literary miniatures. In this first volume, there are 22 glittering examples.

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870, where his father was a senior official in the Burma police. From the age of two, he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later he traveled in Europe with his father. He joined the Burma police but resigned after a year because of ill health and returned to England, where he began his writing career as a journalist and short story writer for magazines and newspapers. Saki is regarded as a master of the short story.

At the start of the First World War, he refused a commission, enlisted as a private, and went to France, where, in November 1916, he was killed by a shot to the head, his last words being, "Put that bloody cigarette out."

Members Reviews:

Good performance of storytelling Saki

Pleasant voice with just enough subtle irony to do justice to this narvelous s malicious author.

no connection

could not make a connection to this story or narrator

:(. fell asleep listening. could not tell you anything about the story.

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Title: The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse

Author: Thornton W Burgess

Narrator: Tom S Weiss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for a daily newspaper column.

In The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Danny begins his tale regretting the length of his tail until he is corrected by Mr. Toad. Then he has a series of stalkings by Reddy Fox and Granny Fox. He is captured by Hooty the Owl but escapes midflight to fall into Peter Rabbit's briar patch. Peter goes to Farmer Brown's peach orchard, gets caught in a snare, and barely escapes. Finally, Danny gets trapped in a tin can and must use his wits to escape Reddy Fox again.

Members Reviews:

That Mouse

I like mice, and that was why I chose this book. My children listened to it time and time again. It kind of reminded of the mouse with the motorcycle. Great Story.

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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: John Tatlock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-15

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's finest tales, The Hound of the Baskervilles, takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on an adventure to investigate a supernatural hound that maybe looking to inflict harm upon a young heir.

Members Reviews:

I envy anyone who has not read this novella.

This is Doyle's longest and most complete story. We get to know several characters besides Holmes and Watson. Doyle describes Dartmoor and the Grimpen Mire with tantalizing details.

If you are not familiar with any of the movies, radio or TV adaptations, you have a rare treat in store. But even if you have been a longtime fan of Sherlock Holmes it is worth another read.

Absolutely Classic Story

The classic Holmes story. It can be a bit wordy at times but the reasoning behind that was to involve the reader in the general moodiness and atmosphere of the story. This isn't THE Holmes story to read if you are just becoming acquainted with Holmes, but it is very worthwhile reading once you've been introduced to him via some of the short stories or perhaps even A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.

Old school detective story

If you want to start with Holmes, start here. Many old school stories don't hold up well, this does. For cultural literacy reasons alone it's worth the time (it's a quick read) but it's also a good story. Call it up on the Kindle for a buck and enjoy the bus ride.

One of the best

It was fun to have a Holmes novel with Watson taking center stage. This is a classic. Doyle makes you picture and actually feel the moor. Do yourself a favor and read this one. (One star is taken off for the incredible amount of typos.)

Sherlock Holmes rocks

Sherlock Holmes is the best. Read every story over and over again. Love this one because it proves that answers don't have to be fanciful to be right.

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Title: The Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Jennifer Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Described as an "excellent yarn", "amazingly clever", and a "thrilling adventure", Agatha Christie's tale of a dauntless pair of amateur detectives, Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who stumble upon a puzzling mystery, was recently adapted for a BBC TV series that will air in 2015. The story begins on the doomed RMS Lusitania and takes the listener through a web of intrigue, murder, and mayhem.

Members Reviews:

The Secret Adversary

Excallent I never thought I'd find out how Tommy & Tuppence became part of Agatha Christie's plots but this book explains how it all came about.

It's got a brilliant storyline.

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Title: Stiff Upper Lip

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrator: David Ian Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-15

Publisher: One Voice Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Another classic funny Jeeves and Wooster story. Bertie once again travels to Totleigh Towers to try to repair the rift in Gussie Finknottle and Madeline Basset's engagement. Pop Basset and Roderick Spode (Lord Sidcup) think he is there to steal a black amber statuette for Bertie's Uncle Tom. How could things get complicated?

Members Reviews:

Avoid this recording.

This recording is not up to professional standards. The reading is terrible; and it has poorly-done drop-ins and even a few audible (with a small A) page turns. Worst of all, the last part of the book is missing. A complete disaster and an embarrassment.